Valve.



y /vihwmcoz M E. A. KELSEY. VALVE. APPLICATION FILED D3019, 1910.

1,006,852, Patented 001211911.

EDGAR AGKERMAN KELSEY, OF MOUNT VERNON, NEW YORK, ASSIG-NOR OF ONE-HALF TO WALTER L. ABATE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

VALVE.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 24, 1911.

,.p1ication filed December 19, 1910. Serial No. 598,149.

and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Valves, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact'specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,

wherein- Figure 1 is an isometric view of one form of my improved valve, Fig. 2 a top View of the valve seat; Fig. 3 an isometric view of a bushing for the valve stem; Fig. 4: a vertical sectional view of a valve casing with the parts of the valve arranged therein; Fig. 5 is an elevation and Fig. 6 a top view of another form of my improved valve; Fig. 7' a top view of the neck of the Valve casing; Fig/8 is a sectional view of a valve casing with a ball spring valve,- made according to my invention; the valve being shown in an elevation, and the valve seat in a sectional view; and Fig. 9 is a plan View of the washer used in connection therewith. v

Heretofore valves were fitted into their seats by grinding; it'is, however, a very tedious and difficult process in practice to fit a valve into its seat by grinding, so as to make it really fluid-tight, because of the difiiculty, if not absolute impossibility, of producing a perfect spheroid, and the imperfections in the shape are apt to produce leakage." Moreover, the valv. does not stay fluid-tight for very long, before needing to be reground, which greatly reduces the term of usefulness of such valves, and of course increases the costs of such valves and time and labor for fitting and refitting them.

The object of my invention is to produce a valve which is made to fit air-tightly into its seat without grinding, and which, after being thus fitted, is maintained in the position' in which it was originally fitted into its seat. This is done, according, to my invention, by setting the valve in, into its seat, in theposition as the valve is intended to be maintained, and then pressing the valve in. Thereby whatever imperfections there may be in the shapes of the valve and of the-seat, are reversely reproduced in the other. For instance, a bulge in the valve produces a corresponding depression in the seat; a depreesion in one part permits the metal of the other part to rise under the pressure of the parts surrounding the depression. It must, of course, be understood, that before thus fitting, the valve and its seat are shaped the same way' as they are for grinding. It is, however, not necessary to do this work of shaping to such a degree of fineness as it is required to be done when the valve is to be fitted into its seatby grinding. Small valves may be fitted into their seats by a tap of a hammer, larger ones require correspondingly greater force to accomplish this, but it should be understood that it does not require any great force to fit even a, large valve into its seat. For thus fitting ball-valves into their seats, it is advantageous to use acorrespondinglyshaped tool, to prevent flattening thereof by the stroke. By such compression, or driving in of the valve into its seat, whatever unevenness there might be in the seat, or in the valve, is impressed into, or reproduced reversely in the other part and the surfaces of the valve and of the seat, are made to correp'rotuberances or depressions on the contact ing surface of each are reversely reproduced in the other, and thereby their contacting surfaces are formed so closely corresponding toeach other, as to produce an air-tight joint. The fitting of the valve is illustrated as well as it can be shown in a drawing, in

, Figs. 1 and 2. It will be seen in Fig. 1 that the head a of the valve shows a depression at b. This depression was produced by the corresponding protuberances or unevenness,

indicated 6, of the valve seat 8, shown in Fig. 2. It will be further seen, that the head a of the valve (see Fig. 1) shows a ,slight protuberance 'at 0, which corresponds with the dent marked 0', in the seat 8 of the valve shown in Fig. 2. These deviations from the correct spherical shape, are shown somewhat exaggerated for the purpose of illustration. In practice the deviations are ously constructed devices may be employed, 5

some of which are illustrated in the abovedescribed drawings. The device shown in Figs. 1 and 2 comprises the square stem 03 of the valve and the bushing f shown in 'Fig. 3, which is screwed into the neck of the valve casing. Thebushing f is provided with a longitudinal. bore (1, corresponding in shape to the stem d. Thebushing f is firmly screwed in, in the valve casing, stem (2 and the bushing f then hold it in the same position relatively to the seat .9 as it was originally fitted. In practice the stem (Z of the valve a is inserted in the bushing f and the latter screwedinto the valve casing before the valve is fittedinto its seat. Then a suitably shaped tool is set upon the stem 03 and hit 'by a hammer.- One or two taps with a hammer upon the head of the tool, will be sufficient to produce a fluidtight fitting of the valve into its seat. The stemd and the bushing f then hold it inthe position, in which it was thus fitted. In

Figs. '5 and 6' a somewhat different means is shown for this purpose. In this device the ball-valve g is combined with the plate h of greater width than the diameter of the valve 9, and guide-ways i are cut in the plughole of the valve casing. Plate 72. is

secured in the slot .e, milled in the valve 9,

and the projecting parts of the plate enter into the grooves 2' cut in the plug-hole of the valve casing. Thereby the valve is maintained in the position, in which it was fitted into its seat.

The spherical valve is shown in Fig. 8 is held against turning by the flattened end Z of the spring Z, which engages in a corresponding aperture of -washer m. This J washer is held in its position, in the valve casing, by the ridge 2 registering with a corresponding notch 77' in the shoulder t of the bore in the casing and by thepacking ring 9 pressed thereon by the valve the position in which they arejfitted into their seats as hereinbefore set forth.

'When assembling a valve of this kind or setting it into the casing, the valve is, affixed 'to the spring Z, is set in. Then a tool, having its lower end shaped to fit over the valve and slotted to admit the bent end of spring Z, is setthereon and tapped with a hammer. This fits the valve 70 into its seat .9. The notch 32', having been made in the shoulder at 'of the bore in the casing, the washer m is slid uponthe flattened end Z of the spring Z and ridge p is made therein by setting a chisel upon the edge of the washer over the notch p and hitting it with ahammer.- By that the valve is fixed in the position in which it was, fitted into its seat. Then the p cking ring'g is inserted and finally plug it is screwed in.

I claim as my invention: 1. The process of fitting valves into their seats which consistsin pressing one upon the other, whereby the imperfections in the shape of each are reversely reproduced in the other.

2. A valve and a valve seat, the imperfections in the shape of the seat being reversely reproduced on the valve and the imperfections in the shape of the valve bej ing reversely reproduced in the seat, and means for guiding the valve to seat it in the same position in the seat, in which it was fitted therein.

3. A valve casing, a valve and a valv seat, the valve and the valve seat having each the imperfections in shape of the other reversely reproduced by pressing them together; an angularly cross-sectioned stem on the valve; means secured in the neck of the valve casing and having an angular aperture therein fitted on the same.

EDGAR AGKERMAN KELS EY.

Witnesses: I

'A. F. SPIEGEL,

EMMA SCHLUETER.

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